cena
\ˈθe.na\
The verdict
“cena” is uncommon French (frequency #50,112 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,112
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repas du soir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cena · cena · French
cena · rank #50,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,112
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chalutier
Nearest frequency peer: chalutier (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cena »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Carrey
Carrey
49,892 corpus weight
- Castillon
Castillon
49,891 corpus weight
- cena
cena
49,889 corpus weight
- chalutier
chalutier
49,888 corpus weight
- charnu
charnu
49,887 corpus weight
- chenil
chenil
49,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cena » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cena |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈθe.na\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cena » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cena is uncommon French at frequency #50,112 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈθe.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Repas du soir.".
cena doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cena, spelled C-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Repas du soir.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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